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CVE-2025-58754: Axios is vulnerable to DoS attack through lack of data size check

September 11, 2025 (updated September 15, 2025)

When Axios runs on Node.js and is given a URL with the data: scheme, it does not perform HTTP. Instead, its Node http adapter decodes the entire payload into memory (Buffer/Blob) and returns a synthetic 200 response. This path ignores maxContentLength / maxBodyLength (which only protect HTTP responses), so an attacker can supply a very large data: URI and cause the process to allocate unbounded memory and crash (DoS), even if the caller requested responseType: 'stream'.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-4hjh-wcwx-xvwj
  • github.com/axios/axios
  • github.com/axios/axios/commit/945435fc51467303768202250debb8d4ae892593
  • github.com/axios/axios/pull/7011
  • github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v1.12.0
  • github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-4hjh-wcwx-xvwj
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-58754

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.12.0

Fixed versions

  • 1.12.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.12.0 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Source file

npm/axios/CVE-2025-58754.yml

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